Hundred twenty-eighth note - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The hundred twenty-eighth note (also called a semihemidemisemiquaver[1][2] or quasihemidemisemiquaver[3]) is a note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note which is where it gets its name.It has five flags or beams. In the time signature it has a value of 1⁄32 of a beat.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Read, Gardner (1979). Music Notation, p.65. 2nd edition. Crescendo Taplinger. ISBN 0-8008-5453-5.
- ↑ Haas, David (2008-10-30), Fairclough, Pauline; Fanning, David (eds.), "Shostakovich's Second Piano Sonata: a composition recital in three styles", The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 95–114, doi:10.1017/ccol9780521842204.006, ISBN 978-0-521-84220-4, retrieved 2022-05-03
- ↑ Miller, RJ (2015). Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-415-74190-3.